Aircraft

It marks the first time a B-52 will be on ground display during event; the aircraft is from the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 93rd Bomb Squadron of the 307th Bomb Wing, based at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

Named the “777 Dream Cabin” programme, it will include complete design engineering, certification and installation of all new aircraft interiors on 18 of the airline’s Boeing 777-200 and -300 aircraft.

Aviation agency said it aims to provide a 'detailed analysis' of the Germanwings cockpit voice recorder information and any other flight data — but it also plans to widen its search to examine issues that could affect the worldwide aviation industry.

Raytheon will deliver one building-based and one mobile ground segment to locations in South Korea. Work under the contract will be performed at Raytheon's Dulles, VA, facility and is expected to be completed by mid-2019.

Both the E190s and the E175s will be configured in single-class layouts. They will join the 28 E190s already flying with KLM Cityhopper to replace the remaining 19 Fokker F70s that the carrier is phasing out.

The exemption, which is available only to NBAA members operating in the U.S., allows operators of small aircraft to take advantage of the flexibility usually offered to operators of larger, turbine-powered airplanes.

Aviation experts envision an end to the era of pilots – at least pilots in cockpits – just as inevitably as elevator operators became redundant, expensive and far less precise in the operation than computerized systems.

One of the biggest was their engineers did not have a full set of PC-7 drawings to work with so they had to create all of the interfaces for the new equipment and the legacy units that remained in the aircraft.

ATR hosts its Global Operators Conference over a two-day period (31st March – 1st April). For it 13th edition, the event is held in Nice, France. Held every two years and very welcome by the operators community, the event brings together most of the ATR...

The roundtable included more than 30 business leaders. Participants discussed the hurdles of transacting business in Africa and how the International Trade Administration (ITA) could help reduce those barriers.